Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by Gray, Thomas
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. Stiff color printed wrappers lacking paper backstrip. Illustrated with drawings by Harry Fenn on nearly every page. Onion skin tissue guard for frontispiece has toned both title-page and frontis. Printed on stiff card stock. All edges gilt. A sound copy, even lacking backstrip. All pages firmly attached and very little wear to wraps. This famous poem by Gray was published in both hardcover and softcover format in 1884 by Roberts. This is the first copy of the soft-bound issue that we have seen. Scarce. Good.. Reprint. Stiff Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harry Fenn. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003091
- Title
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Author
- Gray, Thomas
- Illustrator
- Harry Fenn
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1884
- Keywords
- Poetry. Poems, Verse
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Alibris4;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...